Landscape and Divine Justice.pdf

Dissertation: Abstract and ToC, 2020

2021

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World), 2013

Städte im lateinischen Westen und im griechischen Osten zwischen Spätantike und Früher Neuzeit. Topographie – Recht – Religion, Mihailo Popović, Martin Scheutz, Herwig Weigl and Elisabeth Gruber (eds) (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für österreichische Geschichtsforschung 66), 2015

2019

By studying the history of the diversity of urbanism attitudes in the world, it is becoming evident to us that religions have always had a drastic influence on the form, development, and geometry of the city. The influence of religions on the development of the cities is derived from the respect which all divine religions consider for holy places. The construction of a sacred place in an area has always given value to the surrounding fabric. Furthermore, it centralizes urban and other affiliate activities in the environs; therefore, the structure of the city has been gradually formed around the sacred place. The type of outlook to the sacred place in the two religions of Islam and Christianity is generally different, and this attitude towards the sacred place landscape is also crystallized. So, with an analytical and historical comparisons between Islamic and Christian cities and assess landscape constituent of the sacred place, the different attitudes towards the holy place can be seen. In this qualitative study, according to the theorists' point of view about city structure, the position of sacred places in the Islamic and the Christian cities has been investigated. Then a comparative study conducted between two case pilgrimage sites. the findings evidently prove that the landscape identity of the holy places in the Islamic city is organically connected to the peripheral neighborhood and the surrounding area. In fact, sacred place is located in the heart of environ spaces as a focal place which could bring together communication of pilgrims and citizens in term of various pilgrimage did and usual activities. However, in Christianity, the holy place has a dominated architecture which represents Christ cross in geometry and also has semantic and formic independent respect to its adjacent. The lack of objective-subjective relations with nearby neighborhoods leads to separation of the holy place and usual urban activity. The origin of this contention appears in the analogy of sacred places in both Islamic and Christian cities.

Czasopismo Techniczne

2020

Historic quarters have been a significant component in creating the identity of historical cities in Iran. In the contemporary era, many of these historic landscapes have faced the collapse of their traditional and social foundations and been subjected to the degradation of their cultural, social and physical values. Given the dominant role of religion in the orientation of the political system in Iran, this article examines how religious differences have created significant spatial transformations in historic urban landscapes for religious minorities. Selecting the historic Armenian quarter in Isfahan (Julfa) as the case study, a new model for the preservation of historic landscapes in ghettos on a national scale has been proposed after having carried out the relevant research. Given the capacities in the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the findings of this research show that the model of federalism, if integrated into public policy, can promote the social freedom and...

Cities as Palimpsests? Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism, Elizabeth Key Fowden, Suna Çağaptay, Edward Zychowicz-Coghill, and Louise Blanke, eds, Oxbow Books., 2022